An 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula shook the Pacific, but its tsunami fizzled. A geologist explains ...

The chain of extinct and fossilized volcanoes stretched beneath South China and was formed during the breakup of the ...

Scientists studying a puzzling hot zone beneath America, called the North Atlantic Anomaly, have proposed a mantle wave ...

A large region of unusually hot rock deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the United States could be linked to Greenland ...

The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a horseshoe-shaped belt of volcanoes known for explosive eruptions and intense earthquakes.

Megathrust earthquakes are large earthquakes that occur on faults found along the boundaries between tectonic plates. The ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs about how the planet’s first continents came into being. Researchers from ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Geologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how the Earth’s early continents ...

Despite important research advances, the dynamics sources and mechanisms underlying the Earth’s crustal plate movements remain a research hotspot and challenge. For example, the internal deformation ...